oops! girl's bike!
When a lad I was at my mate's house, and I borrowed his sister's bike to ride up and down the cul-de-sac. Standing up on the pedals to get power, the hub gears went into neutral at the top of the power-stroke, and because there was no crossbar on the frame, as my foot shot down and backwards on the now-freewheeling pedal,my body fell downwards out of control and my right knee ground into the pavement, leaving most of its skin and tissue on the gravel, as I unceremoniously fell in a slithering heap with the bike on top of me.
I remember looking down at the damage and seeing white bone and connective tissue poking out from the 5 centimetre crater.
Weeks later, after quite a few days off school, (damn!) the scab had formed up nicely, I fell off my skateboard (that I wasn't supposed to ride on account of the knee) onto the same knee, wearing jeans. "Oh-oh, that can't be good" I thought, as i gingerly rolled up my jeans to see if the scab had survived. Nope, there it was, completely off its crater, loose in my jeans.
I was bloody scared of what mum would scream, so I gingerly went downstairs and promptly taped the scab back on, and pretended everything was rosy.
It healed up just fine! Wonders!
Now I can appreciate that I might have castrated myself had it been a boy's bike.
(mr locomotivator, Sun 10 Aug 2008, 7:56, 1 reply)

I had a buddy...
Whose Brother received a brand new 'Big Boys' tenspeed as a birthday gift. The day after receiving said gift, he had to go off to Boy Scout camp. His departing words to my buddy were: "If you ride my bike, I will KILL you!"

About 30 minutes after he spoke those words, my buddy decided it was time to give it a go:

He hopped off the curb and fell onto the crossbar. He screamed a hideous, girlish scream and ran to his MOther. I followed.

Upon explaining what he had done, his Mother took him into the bathroom to inspect the damage...I was standing there in the doorway. Upon pulling his shorts down (which were swimming shorts) one of his testicles fell out of them and PLOPPED into the toilet.

Henceforth he was known (and is TODAY) as "The One Nut Bandit!"

Cheers!

Sean/Citadel
( Citadel Because the world needs less morons, Sun 10 Aug 2008, 8:04, closed)